At 01:10 PM 6/18/01 +1000 Brett Coster wrote: >Why it is that hard core "right to lifers" also seem to fall into the group >most opposed to open sex education for children has always confused and >angered me. If anything, they should be out there promoting sex education, >with all options from celibacy on up, and particularly sex health to cut >down on the number of unwanted pregnancies. Sex is bad, doubly so if you have sex outside marriage or in ways not approved by the church (whatever church). Fear of STDs and babies is good, because it stops people from having sex. Sex education is bad because it reduces fear of STDs and conceiving a baby, leading people to have sex. AIDS education is bad because then you can't tell your children they'll die if they have sex. Birth control and abortion are bad because, again, less fear, more sex. It's impossible that people could learn the facts and still not have sex because all people are horrible evil sinners who can't be trusted to do the right thing. Patrick Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
